If I wanted to play the violin, I had to work. Because anything that one wants to do really, and one loves doing, one must do everyday. It should be …

- Yehudi Menuhin

The ultimate aim in life should be to fulfill to the utmost all that within our ability and to share that which is good and beautiful.

- Yehudi Menuhin

The practice of yoga induces a primary sense of measure and proportion. Reduced to our own body, our first instrument, we learn to play it, drawing f…

- Yehudi Menuhin

A society without its dreamers can never be free.

- Yehudi Menuhin

Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility…

- Yehudi Menuhin

Improvisation is not the expression of accident but rather of the accumulated yearnings, dreams and wisdom of our very soul.

- Yehudi Menuhin

To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star.

- Yehudi Menuhin

To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in the pursuit of your idea…

- Yehudi Menuhin

I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.

- Yehudi Menuhin